By Ana Guirao, Caritas Spain The heat didn’t stop thousands of young people coming to Plaza de Cibeles to take part in the inaugural mass for World Youth Day. Even though the celebration was starting at 8 in the evening, young people started to arrive from midday onwards. Young people with their country flags came ...
Ana Guirao, Caritas Spain (see below for Spanish) We just had the final press conference in preparation for World Youth Day. They offered us load of figures about the participation, registration, volunteers, costs and the like. Almost half a million people have already registered. We’re really on the home straight. The stage in Plaza de ...
World Youth Day 2011 kicks off in Madrid on 16th August. Elizabeth Pappalardo and Krystie Tham from Caritas Australia are just two of the hundreds of thousands of young people who will travel to the Spanish capital to celebrate their faith and join in the celebrations. From our experiences at World Youth Day 2008 in ...
By Ana Guirao, Caritas Spain Available also in Spanish Almost half a million young people from around the world will gather in Madrid with Pope Benedict to celebrate World Youth Day from 16-21 August. It is a real opportunity for young people to answer their call and to strengthen their commitment to their faith. The ...
Read about the conference on the blog and see photos on flickr From southern Sudan and Central America to Congo and Colombia, the Catholic Church is a powerful force for peace and reconciliation This often untold and unheralded dimension of the Church’s mission has not been systematically examined by academics and is often ignored or ...
La journée tire à sa fin. La 19e assemblée générale de Caritas Internationalis aussi. Ce midi, rencontre avec le pape au Vatican, Puis, il y a eu l’adoption du message final. Enfin, nous y voilà, les inévitables discours officiels. Il y en a un qui est particulièrement attendu, un discours d’adieu celui-là. Celui de Lesley-Anne ...
Une assemblée mondiale, c’est évidemment un grand nombre de plénières et du travail en ateliers. Et au menu de ces agapes délibératives, il y a inévitablement des rapports à approuver, des états financiers à scruter à la loupe, des plans stratégiques à commenter et à bonifier. Sans com pter ces élections à la direction et ...
By Michelle Hough, communications officer It took Sr Senolita Vakata two days to come to Rome from Tonga in the Pacific Ocean for the Caritas Internationalis General Assembly. She’ll make her return journey after just seven days in the Italian capital. “I wake up at 3am every morning because of jet lag, but it’s worth ...
«Nous ne pouvons accepter qu’un seul de nos frères et de nos soeurs doive continuer de vivre dans l’extrême pauvreté – encore moins un milliard d’entre eux», a tonné le président de Caritas Internationalis, le cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. Dans son rapport présenté lors de la 19e assemblée générale de cette confédération, il a ...
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